Debugging Your Visual Basic Application

This page provides pointers to documentation for the debugging features built into Visual Studio.

You can use the most important of these, the debugger, to observe the run-time behavior of your program and to determine the location of semantic errors.

Using the debugger, you can examine the content of variables in your program without inserting additional calls to output the values. Similarly, you can insert a breakpoint in your code to halt execution at the desired point.

Controlling Execution

The following table lists debugging tasks involving execution control and points to their associated Help pages.